• Small Talks: Adverse Drug Events (ADEs)

    Online via Zoom

    Join our team for a valuable exploration of adverse drug events. Learn how to define them and recognize their common causes. We'll also cover how to use an ADE Trigger Tool, and how to review ADE statistics including what to look for and what to do with your findings.

  • CMS National Nursing Home Stakeholder Call, February 2, 2022, 3 pm ET

    Online via Zoom

    Join the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for a National Stakeholder Call providing updates on COVID-19, revisions to nursing home guidance, and best practices. Additionally, subject matter experts from CDC and CMS will address frequently asked questions. Panelists: Dr. Lee Fleisher, CMS Chief Medical Officer […]

  • CMS Rural Health Open Door Forum, Feb 3, 2022, 2-3 pm ET

    CMS Rural Health Open Door Forum is scheduled for: Date: Thursday, February 3, 2022 Start Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time (ET); Please dial in at least 15 minutes prior to call start time. Conference Leaders: Ing-Jye Cheng, John Hammarlund and Jill Darling. **This Agenda is Subject to Change** 1. Opening Remarks 1. Co-Chair- Ing-Jye Cheng, (Center […]

  • Small Talks: Enhancing Transitions to Community

    Online via Zoom

    Transitions back to the community can be fraught with challenges, including unplanned readmissions. Join us to explore how Project RE-Engineered Discharge (Project RED), can support community discharges from the hospital or skilled nursing home. Community connections are key to successful discharges, so we’ll also discuss screening and addressing social determinants of health to reduce unnecessary […]

  • Small Talks: Enhancing Transitions to Community

    Transitions back to the community can be fraught with challenges, including unplanned readmissions. Join us to explore how Project RE-Engineered Discharge (Project RED), can support community discharges from the hospital or skilled nursing home. Community connections are key to successful discharges, so we’ll also discuss screening and addressing social determinants of health to reduce unnecessary […]

  • Check in with the QIO – Office Hours

    A monthly half-hour zoom sessions to follow up on recent Small Talks, explore new intervention(s), ask questions, and connect with peers. These 30-minute sessions do not require registration.  

  • Centering Racial Equity In Social Needs Interventions

    Online via Zoom

    This event is hosted by HealthBegins Healthcare leaders and practitioners around the country are increasingly understanding the urgency of two foundational goals—addressing health-related social needs and improving racial equity—and seeking ways to act on them. Yet there’s an important truth that must be applied for these efforts to succeed. It is that meeting social needs […]

  • Small Talks: Sepsis: Early Identification is a Cross Continuum Opportunity

    Online via Zoom

    We will go over the signs and symptoms of sepsis. And to increase sepsis recognition we will review sepsis screening tools for healthcare providers at the bedside, patients, families. Participants will be able to: Recognize that Sepsis is the number one reason for 30-day readmissions, and diagnosis is often missed by healthcare providers and members […]

  • Save the Date: Black Health & Wellness Roundtable with CMS Administrator

    Watch the stream here. You are cordially invited by Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to attend a special live-streamed virtual roundtable discussion to acknowledge Black History Month. Administrator Brooks-LaSure is the first Black woman to serve as Administrator of CMS and has made health equity a top priority of the […]

  • Small Talks: Sepsis: Early Identification is a Cross Continuum Opportunity

    We will go over the signs and symptoms of sepsis. And to increase sepsis recognition we will review sepsis screening tools for healthcare providers at the bedside, patients, families. Participants will be able to: Recognize that Sepsis is the number one reason for 30-day readmissions, and diagnosis is often missed by healthcare providers and members […]

  • Small Talks: Making Sense & Staying on Track: CMS Vaccine Mandates

    Online via Zoom

    Staying on top of vaccine mandates can be challenging. Our team can help translate CMS’ requirements, identify tools that help stay you on track and consider best practices for ongoing success. Access the tools today and join one of the upcoming sessions to learn more.

  • Opioid and Pain Management Best Practices: Technology for Opioid Risk Assessment, Naloxone Access, and Urine Screening

    Don’t miss out! See nationally acclaimed pain management expert Dr. Jeff Fudin present on free software that can save lives! Please join us for a technology demonstration of free software to help prescribers, nurses, pharmacists, and other clinicians who work in any care setting assess patients/residents for opioid overdose and use disorder risks, help clinicians […]